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Original Message Date: 31-Jul-01 @ 08:52 AM - Korg Oasys

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Howdy...
Does anyone own or use this card. Any comments +or-. Does the addition of the Triton PCM samples increase the cards polyphony? Doesn't sample playback take alot less dsp power than modeling? The price has dropped substantially yet few people seem to have bought one. Why?
Card looks good on paper but I have heard very little here or anywhere else about it. Can you run software synths though it in conjunction with the onboard synths without annoying latency. Any comments welcome.

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Message 11/17 05-Aug-01 @ 12:17 PM - RE: Korg Oasys

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I bought one when it became cheaper. The polyphony is still little. Some PCM algos eats more DSP than some PM algos, e.g. Argon4+ Vs. B3. But I only sample these sounds for use in my music so the low polyphony is not a big problem for me. I heard you can get low latency ASIO with OASYS, but it just doesn't happen on my system. With the largest buffer and all the optimization suggested in OASYS FAQ, I still get cracklings when record on my PIII-550 MHz. Overall I am pretty happy with it though.

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Message 12/17 05-Aug-01 @ 08:20 PM - RE: Korg Oasys

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crackling sounds like a hardware conflict or timing problem. Do you have another card installed? With low latency buffers around 64 you definatly need a powerful pc to utilize them. At 512, you should be ok. My DSP factory got 28ms latency at the 512 buffer and i was able to run 40 24 bit tracks with fx on a PII 400 without incident. I get 60 out of my PIII800 at the same settings. So you may have a bad ground on the card or a hardware conflict cuasing the interuption in sample acurate timing. Check the pci screw to see that it is seated properly to the case. Other than that, try removing other periferals to see if it solves the problem. IE motums with Audio drivers, and gameing devices etc.

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Message 13/17 06-Aug-01 @ 10:47 PM - RE: Korg Oasys

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No it's a clean box. OASYS is the only card in the system. I already set the largest buffer (4 buffers 512 samples). I just think OASYS just doesn't work the same way on the same machine as I have seen many people with different unlikely problems on the OASYS list.

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Message 14/17 07-Aug-01 @ 06:15 AM - RE: Korg Oasys

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This is why people buy hardware. I've owned both and after owning 5 different keyboards and several tone modules and two drum machines they with a couple of rare exceptions NEVER gave me ANY problems. Just plug and play.
Sounds like the perfect sound card is still years away.

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Message 15/17 09-Aug-01 @ 05:42 AM - RE: Korg Oasys

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Could this card co-exist with a soundblaster card? Could I run the digital out from my SB to the spdif in on the oasys? I want to run a softsynth through SB then back into oasys to avoid latency issues.

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Message 16/17 09-Aug-01 @ 05:42 AM - RE: Korg Oasys

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Message 17/17 10-Aug-01 @ 06:55 PM - RE: Korg Oasys

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you could run another low latency card , and have the oasys out going to a mixer and back into a diferant card for the audio device. The oasys can be run as a stand alone fx, synth unit, while the other card handles all pc i/o. But note that the ASIO drivers for the oasys are faster than your SB live. And the oasys uses adat as well. You would probably be better off running the oasys without the sblive present. They have tested it with cards listed on thier site. I believe, protools, creamware, and a couple of others. I may buy one and throw it in a mini tower by itself just to use the fx and synths. $500 for such a versitle piece, and a I can build a cheap pc for next to nothing. since I am in Sonar and no WDM drivers are comming for oasys, then i will need to run it on 98, and my main audio pc on 2000.

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